my prove that Napoleon Bonaparte said it
Similarly to Napoleon Bonaparte said the following:
"However often we turn to it [the Qur'an], at first disgusting us each
time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our
reverence... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim, is
stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime. Thus this book
will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence."
Gethe, quoted in T P Hughes' Dictionary of Islam, p 526.
The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the
great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epochmaking works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses ofmen. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of
heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nation of
heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religious
organizations of the Muhammadan world which are one of the great
forces with which Europe and the East have to reckon today
- G. Margoliouth
Introduction toe. M. Rodwell's
The Koran, New York Every man's Library, 1977, p. Vll.